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544 West 49th Street

Manhattan · Hell's Kitchen, NY 10019

544 West 49th Street is a 20-apartment building in Hell's Kitchen, built in 1909, managed by NJB Management CORP. The City has 24 open housing-code violations on file for it, 12 of them immediately hazardous, about 1.2 per apartment, roughly three times the neighborhood norm for a building this size (HPD, as of 5 October 2026). Tenants filed 18 complaints with 311 in the past year, which the City closed in a median of 4 days (311, as of 5 October 2026). No tenant has reviewed it here yet. Everything above comes from the City's own records.

Managed by NJB Management CORP.

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Units
20
Year built
1909
Neighborhood
Hell's Kitchen
Borough
Manhattan

This building’s record with the City

Complaints tenants filed with 311, and repairs a City inspector has asked for. Most repairs are routine maintenance. Both describe the building rather than the people in it, and often predate the current management.

2.0/5Worse than most nearbyScored from the records below against every building we cover. It is not a tenant rating. Nobody who lived here said this.

Problems here get fixed quickly, a median of 4 days from complaint to close, faster than the 5-day neighborhood median.

18tenant complaints

Filed with 311 in the past year · 10 the year before

24open repairs

Outstanding with HPD · about 1.2 per apartment

Immediately hazardous
12
Hazardous
6
Non-hazardous
6

What the open repairs are about

  • Pests10
  • Leaks, damp or mould7
  • Stairs, floors and ceilings6
  • Doors, windows and locks5
  • Electrical2
  • Other repairs2

Source: NYC 311 and Housing Preservation & Development. Look this building up · updated Oct 2026

The company that manages it, elsewhere

NJB Management CORP manages 6 other buildings we cover, holding 105 apartments.

open violations
123open violations
immediately hazardous
35immediately hazardous
311 complaints
9311 complaints

in the past year

per apartment
1.2per apartment

The company’s record across its other buildings, not this building’s. A company can run one well and another badly, and these figures often predate the current management. (HPD and 311, as of 5 October 2026.)

What tenants say

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